Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-09-28

as Indian agent at the old Wheatstone
agency, and was afterward receiver in the
United States land Office for two terms
He located first at vermillion then removed
to Sioux Falls, and later to Mitchell He
was prominent Republican.
Alexandria, Mimi. is bereayed in
the death of Judge VIM McAboy, who was
born in Virginia in 1869. Judge McAboy
was appointed by the.generaI government to
the Leech Lake Indian reservation without
bonds in 1855, just after he arrived at sc.
1855 and came to Alexandria IN 1871, was
judge in the probate court In 1882, when
he was attacked with stroke Of paralysis.
Hedeparts lamented, respected and revered.
Two passenger trains on the Chicago
Milwaukee & St Paul R. r., collided at .
curve just outside the city limits Of Du-
buque, Iowa, at six O'Clock Monday morn
ing: There was dense fog. and neither
train saw the other until they crushed.
Five persons were instantly killed, includ-
ing the engineers and fremen Of each train,
and ten injured. Only three of the injured
were passengel The trains ran at
speed Of about Is miles an hour.
New Richmond, Wis, had accidents
on each Of It's railroads. At the Omaha
freight yards boy had foot taken of by
the cars while switching The westward
Central found the body of man on the
track one mile west Of the city He had
evidently been killed by freight train
during the night. His name was Thoss HUFF,
q laborer in Burvold's brick yard.
Ole Strandberg, age II, student in
the artisans training school at the State
University, Minneapolis, Mimi, was killed
on the 18th, while crossing the tracks of the
Manitoba r. R., which run through the
Campus. he came upon the tracks as
trains were coming from eitser direction
and being confused with alarm was struck
down by one Of them, his neck, right arm
and right leg being broken.
At Wahpeton, Oak, the private
boarding house OF Mrs. Wilson was visited
by sneak thieves. Two rooms where the
doors were unlocked were entered aud
valuable gold watch and chain belonging
10 G. q. Walfe. few dollars and pair
Of shoes belonging to w. G.. Whitcomb stoleE.
A pocketbook OF G. e. Walfe's containing
checks OF nearly four hundred dollars was
dropped on the stairs.
The funeral Of j. N. Washburn at
Mitchell, Oak, under Masonic auspices,
was the largest ever held in South Dakota
Masonic delegations were present from
Sioux Falls, Alexandria, Piankinton, White
Lake and other points, nearly two hundred
members being Ia line. The services were
held in the rink in the presence Of 400 poo
Pile, The procession was three quarters OF
. mile in length.
Fully one hundred cars Of ore were
damaged by the wreck Of . runaway train
ct Marquette, Mich. The body 8of William
+. Mahan, the missing conductor was
found under hundred tons OF ore and d
pile Of wreckage twenty five feet high. He
was twenty years old and lived at
arscf. The los VIM IS & least ssse,oo -
Three miles from Canton, Oak, six
cars OF wheat, one Of cattle and the caboose
Of freight train on the G. NJ. g ST p,
r. Il. broke loose from the balance Of the
train and tore down the track couiding
with passenger train at 4 q. 10. The
engineer and fireman OF the passenger
we're killed and three other persons. No
passenGersw were injured.
w. +. Redmon OF Prescott, Minn.,
while out chicken hunting was wounded In
the right side BY the accidental discharge
sof gun. He was sitting in the buggy with
the gun beside him, when the contents were
discharged In some unacCountahlC manner.
The charge passing through his body just
above the hip bone making painful hut
not fatal wound.
Near Eau Claire, WI IS. Julius ] ohm
son, aged u, was shot and instantly killed
while hunting il y road cart with Z cons
psnIon aged IS, BY the accide discharge